Gigans were giant creatures, larger even than the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk. Forty gigans accompanied Nelebel on her exile from the Forest of Burzee, along with forty Ryls and forty Knooks. While the Fairy wept at her punishment, the Gigans rearranged the landscape on the Pacific coast where they had settled, creating the San Bernardino range of mountains, a great bay, and all the other geography of Coronado, California.